Deals Strategy & Operations Value Architect, Deals Strategy Director

Job description

About Deals Strategy and Operation (DS&O)

The Deals Strategy and Operations (DS&O) business is a joint venture between our Consulting and Deals practices. PwC is committed to grow this area and it’s one of our biggest investments leveraging our position as the dominant deal advisory business. We will be looking to grow the team significantly over the next two years.

DS&O delivers an end-to-end deals service to help our clients achieve success from their deals and create value through M&As, disposals and restructuring. It provides a fully integrated and seamless go to market sales- through-to-delivery approach. We’ve been involved in more deals than any other adviser and have over 4,000 deals professionals in more than 75 countries.

Successful deals happen when you bring together leading M&A strategy consulting expertise, a clear vision for what comes next, a proven track record of execution, and deep specialism in managing risk, empowering people and driving technological change.

About Deals Strategy

We’re a team of strategy consultants working across M&A and corporate strategy. We help our clients think through the most pressing issues they face, and we do this by providing our clients with rigorous and independent, market and strategic insight, to help them make good decisions.

Our clients include a wide variety of large and mid-tier corporate clients as well as financial investors such as private equity, sovereign wealth funds and infrastructure funds. We help these clients when they are making major investment or growth decisions, including:

Acquisitions

Disposals

New market entry (new geographies or new products/services)

Greenfield projects

Changes in strategic direction

We engage in detailed, rigorous evaluation of markets, strategic positioning of companies within these markets, their growth drivers, and key business opportunities and risks. We help clients develop new insights, strategies and approaches. Often our work is done at pace, to meet the demands of a deal process or investment decision.

About the role

You’ll initiate and originate significant deal and value creation opportunities for clients and PwC. Our Deal Value Architects have designed and overseen hundreds of successful deals, from developing the right strategy to ensuring that the deal is executed seamlessly. They support companies to implement changes that will deliver synergies and improvements long after the deal is signed.

As a Deal Value Architect, you’ll use your sector contacts including industry financiers (such as banks, private equity and infrastructure investors) to grow our client base even further. You’ll have the ability to work across the sector, with a good understanding of the commercial, technological and regulatory changes impacting the sector and how they are impacting M&A and opportunities for growth.

Essential skills and experience

Demonstrable experience of strategy consulting or M&A advisory experience in the sector gained in a strategy house, a Big 4 firm.

Analytical and project management skills including the ability to run strategy and deals related projects (including more than one project at a time)

Demonstrable experience of leading and developing successful teams

Confident in liaising with and presenting to clients at all levels

An ability to multi-task effectively and balance time between project delivery and business development support effectively

Educated to Degree level or equivalent

Personal Qualities:

Strong commercial acumen

Ability to confidently communicate at C-suite level

Strong networker

Collaborative team player

Empathetic leadership skills

Ability to recognise business opportunities across the wider team and firm

Strong developer of talent

Comfortable with ambiguity

You’ll be joining a team who welcome your outlook and knowledge, whilst developing your skill set further within one of the world’s leading professional organisations. With an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working requirements where appropriate and have many successful arrangements currently in place. Please apply if you have a keen interest in the work we do.

Who we’re looking for

Are you a proven, revenue-generating relationship builder at the Managing Director/CEO level? Do you work within professional services with a mergers & acquisitions track record

We are looking for dedicated Deal Value Architects, who are are end-to-end deals specialists and will help design and manage our clients’ deals and deliver the success they expect. Deal Value Architects live and breathe value creation:

revenue growth

costs reduction

cash generation

EBITDA growth

Deal Value Architects advise clients on the implications of:

business models

operating models

emerging technologies

how you deliver transformational change from deals

To be a successful applicant, you’ll have experience in leading a cross-functional team and articulate value creation opportunities in a deal, (either in merger integration, carve-out or from business transformation) to structure the project execution plan and manage the overall program.

LocationLondon

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.